The funds will be used to buy supplies and equipment used in the clinic’s preventative and restorative dental services.

“We commend your organization for your efforts to improve oral health, and we are pleased to lend our support and be a partner in this project,” said Weldon
Johnson, executive director of Delta Dental of Arkansas Foundation.

The dental clinic used the America’s ToothFairy grant to pay for the salary of a contract dentist for its annual sealant project.

Children in partner schools travel to the clinic to receive sealants, a plastic protective coating that is placed on permanent molars to prevent cavities.
The outreach is held every February during National Children’s Dental Health Month.

Thanks in large part to the grant, 186 Little Rock school children received 686 sealants to protect their teeth during the 2016 sealant project.

The Future Smiles Dental Clinic provides comprehensive dental care to children
from low- to moderate-income households. The clinic is staffed by dental professionals from Arkansas Children’s Hospital, as well as dental hygiene
students from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.

Since opening in 2005, the clinic has conducted more than 31,000 dental screenings and provided nearly $2 million of free dental care for children in the
Little Rock School District.

“I would like to thank Delta Dental for their longtime support of the clinic,” said Jolene Perkins, manager of the Future Smiles Dental Clinic. “We are
also very pleased to have a new partnership with the National Children’s Oral Health Foundation as an America’s ToothFairy affiliate agency.”

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At Delta Dental of Arkansas, our business is centered around making you smile. We’re a local, not-for-profit service corporation headquartered in Sherwood whose mission is to improve the health of the people we serve and to be the leading force in the delivery of quality dental insurance services.